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Quote by Jane Austen
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. – Jane Austen

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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. – Jane Austen

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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. – Jane Austen

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. – Jane Austen

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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men. – Joseph Addison

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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. – Henry Adams

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On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself — on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life… – Simone de Beauvoir

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You can get your appetite elsewhere, as long as you eat at home. – Anonymous

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I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. – Rita Dove

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We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. – Adam Clayton Powell, Keep the Faith, Baby!, 1967

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But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us. – Lindsey Buckingham

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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. – Gertrude Stein

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